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Not only did I get to pick up my new PC yesterday, I also got the car taxed for the next year. Well, I had this hour's parking in Ely, and with the funfair in town there's one less car park, so Saturday will be hell. So a quick walk up to the Post Office, and one cheque for £165 later I have my tax paid for the year.
The situation with the new PC was less satisfactory - Ely Computers were supposed to move the data from the old hard drive to the new one as part of the build process. And they hadn't. Fortunately(!) I'd picked up the dead PC at the same time as there might be bits I want for something else in it, and I like to know where my data's got to.
So their hardware guy suggested over the phone that I should try installing the old drive into the new machine. Which is what I was going to do anyway, but this made it his fault if anything went wrong.
But it all went smoothly... So now I have 60Gb in place of the 40Gb I was expecting. And most (all?) of my old data is now on both drives. Tonight we shall mostly be burning CD-ROMs for backup.
Ameol is installed and talking to Cix again :-) IE will talk to ntl: :-))
But I still don't like WinXP.
The situation with the new PC was less satisfactory - Ely Computers were supposed to move the data from the old hard drive to the new one as part of the build process. And they hadn't. Fortunately(!) I'd picked up the dead PC at the same time as there might be bits I want for something else in it, and I like to know where my data's got to.
So their hardware guy suggested over the phone that I should try installing the old drive into the new machine. Which is what I was going to do anyway, but this made it his fault if anything went wrong.
But it all went smoothly... So now I have 60Gb in place of the 40Gb I was expecting. And most (all?) of my old data is now on both drives. Tonight we shall mostly be burning CD-ROMs for backup.
Ameol is installed and talking to Cix again :-) IE will talk to ntl: :-))
But I still don't like WinXP.
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I will say that if you don't use Outlook or Exploder XP does seem to be pretty stable; had very few problems compared to Windows 98. But anti-virus and anti-trojan software, ad-aware and hardware firewalls are your friends!
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What they said ..
And why didn't you spend the extra 60 quid and get a DVD burner while you were at it? It would make backing up *so* much easier (you could back up the entire 40 Gb on ten discs, rather than the 50 or so CDs, or more importantly, you could back up more than 1Gb of message store onto a single disc!)
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It does seem a lot better than 98. And for something used mostly for children's games and supposedly educational stuff, "use Linux" isn't an answer. (And my wife is used to Word/Office. I put AbiWord on my son's machine, and he hasn't complained yet, but the first Word document I had to deal with at work was unreadable in OpenOffice or AbiWord, so I gave up and installed MS Office there too. (We do have Linux development machines, but I'm running XP - it does have cygwin, emacs, perl, etc..))
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Setting everything to 'Classic' helps, though. I shall survive...
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Windows Update doesn't half take ages, though - started around 10pm and was finished about 11:45. Zzzzz....
Re: What they said ..
(b) don't have that much to back up anyway - only Ameol's Data directory is over 0.5Gb
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Well maybe we should get you into computer games or something.
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Ow! that's really annoying.